These short reflections and insights range in length from twitter-length to short essays. They’re free, so what’ve you got to lose but a few moments?
How great Love is that it creates for Itself not subjects to rule or a master to serve, but its own peers. For just as surely as our children will one day become our equals, so we have been created with a limitless potential.
Most parents want their children to one day equal or exceed them. […]
We are created in God’s image. God is Love, and so we love. That’s what it means to be like God. It means we love and grieve once we lose the object of our love. And rest assured, every thing loved here is lost in the end; the pallet wiped clean. To love is to […]
Each self is a vessel only. Like the channel of a river, I am not the river itself. I am not life, but the course through which life flows. This fact seems tragic. For it points to impermanence and meaninglessness and death. And I strive for a hundred forms of immortality to defend against it, […]
Modern psychology has tended to pathologize that which it doesn’t understand. Take depersonalization and derealization disorders. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (the DSM-5), published by the American Psychiatric Association, recognizes both of these as bona fide mental illnesses. Symptoms of depersonalization can include the sensory experience that objects are shaped […]
We were made because Love was lonely. There has to be a me, because there is a you. Between you and me there must be a difference: a difference in space, in form, in name. Not because the differences are real, but because if two people in a relationship were exactly the same, one of […]
The last words attributed to the Buddha were—
All created things must die. Strive on.
I love, only to lose all that I love. Every creature, whether my cat or my mother, every talent, whether to dance or to draw, to write or to practice law, shall be, must in the end be relinquished. All […]
We fall into the arms of a God because we need deliverance from death. The idea that we can suffer and strive so valiantly on this planet, only to have it all fall to pieces at the moment of our deaths is a frightening prospect. So, some people think we invented God as a wish […]
If the truth were known, all people would be called good people. The fact there are people who are called good, while others are called bad – that there are a them and an us – means the truth hasn’t been fully understood. That truth is the utter necessity of forgiving everybody for everything. No […]
Everyone I encounter is a messenger, and a message never comes without reason. My task is to discern the message that each one brings. Every exchange, every interaction in human affairs is an equal exchange of information, where both parties are full partners and equal teachers of each other. Neither partner ever gives the other […]